Say what??

[katballou.livejournal.com]

Oh hell no you did not just tell me you couldn't do any troubleshooting or even turn the computer on because you're "just a girl".

Are you really so stupid that you don't realize how very insulting that is not just to yourself but to me as a "girl" technician?

It's because of vapid little princesses like you that I have to struggle and fight to get all the "big strong men" to take me seriously when I am telling them how to fix their systems.

I hate you, please go die in a fire.



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[sami-rdwd.livejournal.com]

Okay, so my family and friends know I do tech support and I've now become what they believe to be their "personal tech support."
My ex-boyfriend IMed me on messenger the other day with the question - "How do I burn files to DVD? Where do I get the program to do it?" A slight backstory - he'd downloaded some movies from limewire and wanted to burn them to DVD. I told him that he'd probably want to run some anti-spyware software if he had stuff like limewire because his computer was probably infested quite nicely. He then replied "Oh yeah, I use that stuff [the anti-spyware stuff] to defrag my hardrive and shit all the time." Yeah... go ahead and throw in a computer term that you know but have no clue what it means and see how smart you look.
It only took me a good 40 minutes to convince him that if he only had a DVD/CD-RW drive, and it would only read DVD's, that he could not burn DVD's, no matter how many CD's he was able to burn - that it would have to be a DVD-R drive.
Yeah.. after I closed the IM, I said a silent prayer thanking the powers that be for giving me the good sense to run like hell in the other direction when he said "If you'll stay with me for a year, I'll put a ring on your finger."